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Anti Button? Avert Thine Eyes!

There are many items that my long-suffering, non-larking partner finds it hard to get his head around. Some I can understand; my rookie mudlark days saw me bringing home half the foreshore, including any piece of bashed up glass shard, so long as it had an imprint on it. Buttons however, especially livery, military and utility…

January 7, 2017

Old Father Thames / Marie-Louise Plum

Buttons

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Ceramic Stories in Blue and Red

❄️Mudlark’s Advent, Day 9 ❄️ Ceramic sherds, especially the more recent kind, aren’t a big love of mine, as you may have guessed from their absence on this page. However, anything traceable with a story, or something that leads to a story, has more of a chance. So, here are some of my favourite potsherd…

December 9, 2016

Old Father Thames / Marie-Louise Plum

Ceramic Fragments & Pot Sherds

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17th Century Combed Slipware

❄️Mudlark’s Advent, day 8❄️ Oh, hello, what’s this? A deliciously crumbly, fruity chocolate tiffin, topped with Bakewell icing? No. It’s a lovely, fat chunk of Staffordshire combed slipware, dating from somewhere between 1690-1830. Combed slipware, an earthenware ceramic decorated in slip, fired, usually, with clear glaze to the patterned side, was popular between 1690 and…

December 8, 2016

Old Father Thames / Marie-Louise Plum

Ceramic Fragments & Pot Sherds

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thames mudlarking

Anti Button? Avert Thine Eyes!

Ceramic Stories in Blue and Red

17th Century Combed Slipware